Later Storm, Harmony, Pochi and Serena were still swimming back to podrock...
Pochi was still sore after Razor's tailslam, but Storm was more hurt inside...especially watching at how majestic his mother was.
"i'll never be like you..." Storm thought watching her.
Serena could sense her son's discomfort and so she decided she needed to tell him a few things.
"Pochi, take Harmony home" Serena ordered Pochi "i need to teach my son a lesson"
"as you wish your majesty..." the porpoise answered leading Harmony back home to her family.
"Storm, come here" Serena asked her calf
"m...mom...i'm sorry...i just wanted to be as brave and as strong as you are" Storm answered in a saddened way.
"Storm, bravery doesn't mean you needlessly put yourself or others in danger. And I'm not always brave, in fact today I was the most afraid I've ever been" She explained
"afraid of what?" Storm asked amazed
"that I might lose you" Serena answered to him
"so...even queens can be afraid?" Strom asked
"yes my son" Serena answered giving him a comforting nuzzle
"hey...you know something?" Storm asked her as he started regaining his smile
"yes?" Serena asked curious
"i think the sharks were about to lose their fins for fear!" Storm answered laughing
"Come here you rascal!" Serena exclaimed starting to chase playfully her son.
And after a little chase, Storm ended placing himself on his mother's back, biting gently her dorsal fin.
"mom? Will you be always with me?" Storm asked her
"Look at the stars Storm. All the kings and queens of the past watch us from those stars. If you ever feel alone, remember they are there to guide you, like I will be" she answered her son smiling warmly.
"they look after me from the stars..." he said looking at the nocturnal sky with wide eyes.
However unknowingly to them, the three sharks returned to their homes in the depths of shadow reef.
"great! Just great! A perfect occasion to rip an orca runt apart, and we lost it!" Jezebel was saying growling
"you said it Jezz...oh man i'm starving, I haven't been eating real meat for a whole week! And after that chase we just had, my stomach Is starting to digest itself!" Razor said with his stomach growling savagely
Finn instead was smashing bones with his tail without a care in the world, causing a noise that was terrible for the other shark's hears.
"Knock it off Finn" the larger shark said
Finn however ignored him and kept smashing stuff laughing in the process...
"SHUT UP!" Razor yelled leaping on him and starting roughhousing with him.
Jezebel was trying to rest on a rock and that surely didn't help, seeing sharks behaving like mindless fishes was a sight that really made her feel sick...and angry...
"you two knock it off!" Jezebel ordered tail slamming the two and separating them
"look at yourself! No wonder the orcas forced us in this place and reduced us to a school of scavengers!" She snarled angrily.
"Orca suck..." Razor answered in agreement
"they suck their blubbers" Jezebel answered him, cracking a joke and smiling a little.
Fin then started blubbering something
"yeah and they stink too!" Jezebel answered to her friend smiling even more.
"and boy are they..." Razor started their customary chorus
"UUUUUUUUGLYYYYYYYYY!" The trio sang bursting in laughter, until a deep orca sonar alerted them.
"yeah? I think we aren't that bad" Cain said lurking out of the darkness
"Oh it's just you Cain. We were worried it was someone important, like Serena" Jezebel exclaimed
Cain as an answer started growling at her.
"I swear I hear her name and I get all tingly!" Jezebel said
"oh yeah? Serena..." Razor smiling
"Ooooh..." Jezebel exclaimed tilting her back
"...this reef is populated by idiots..." Cain said snarling
"But Cain here, he's our friend!" Razor exclaimed
"Nos amigo" Jezebel said after him
"Hey pal, did you happen to get us something to eat?" Razor asked Cain with an hungry look in his eyes
"yeah i happen to have a dead seal, but why should i toss it to you?" Cain asked showing the seal and waving it in front of the hungry sharks.
"I conveniently gave you those calves to kill and you couldn't even do that" Cain said again without letting the seal out of his fins
"hey we did our best to take these two down!" Jezebel protested angrily
"right now give us that seal!" Razor yelled with crazy hunger in his eyes
Cain just rolled his eyes and then tossed the seal to them, watching them go in a feeding frenzy.
"anyway, we where about to kill them, if only Serena didn't show up, what did you expect from us? Killing her?" Jezebel asked
"Exactly" Cain answered with an evil sneer
And as the trio looked shocked, the petrol pipeline that passed trough the darkreef started trembling, and a reddish smoke started to come out the ground.
Cain: I know that your powers of retention
Are as wet as a sea cow's backside
But flexible as you are, pay attention
My words are a matter of pride.
It's clear from your vacant eyes.
The lights are not all on near the surface...
Jezebel and Razor are giggling in the background, until Cain tailslams them
Cain: But we're talking Kings and successions
Even you can't be caught unawares!
So prepare for a chance of a lifetime.
Be prepared for sensational news.
A shining new era.
Is tiptoeing nearer from the abysses of the sea.
Jezebel: And where do we feature?
Cain: Just listen to Teacher
I know it sounds sordid, but you'll be rewarded
When at last I am given my dues
And injustice deliciously squared
Be Prepared!
Razor: Yeah, Be prepared.
Yeah-heh... we'll be prepared, heh.
...For what?
Cain: For the death of the queen.
Razor: Why? Is she sick?
Cain: No, fool- we're going to kill her. And Storm too.
Jezebel: Great idea! Who needs a queen?
Jezebel (and then Razor): No queen! No queen! la-la-la-la-laa-laa!
Cain: IDIOTS! THERE WILL BE A KING!
Razor: But you said-
Cain: I will be king! Stick with me, and you'll never go hungry again!
Jezebel and Razor: Yaay! All right! Long live the king!
All sharks: Long live the king! Long live the king!
The sharks start swimming in coordination as if they were marching
Sharks: It's great that we'll soon be connected
With a king who'll be all-time adored
Cain: Of course, quid pro quo, you're expected
To take certain "duties" on board
The future is littered with preys
And though I'm the main addressee
The point that I must emphasize is
You won't get a leftover without me!
(He hurls a shark away)
Cain: So prepare for the coup of the century
Be prepared for the murkiest scam
Meticulous planning
Sharks: We'll have food
Cain: Tenacity spanning
Sharks: Lots of food
Cain: Decades of denial
Sharks: We repeat
Cain: is simply why I'll
Sharks: Endless meat!
Be king undisputed
Sharks (Aaaaaaah...)
Respected, saluted
Sharks (...aaaaaaah...)
And seen for the wonder I am
Sharks (...aaaaaaah!)
Cain: Yes my teeth and ambitions are bared
Be prepared!
All:
Yes, our teeth and ambitions are bared
Be prepared!
Cain: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
He maniacally laughed as the reddish smoke died down and the pipeline stopped trembling...